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Carter, Williams lead 93rd WV Open

DANIELS — A pair of former Division I golfers from the Mountain State shared the lead at 4-under par following the completion of Wednesday's first round of the 93rd West Virginia Open contested at Glade Springs Resort. Ex-West Virginia University golfer Chris Williams and Marshall University graduate Pat Carter, who is a 13-time W.Va. Amateur champion, paced the field by two strokes. In all, only nine golfers finished in the red as the competitors played on either the Cobb Course or Stonehaven with the top 60 players and ties making the cut on Thursday to Friday's final round. A ...

Parkersburg Post 15 finishes runner-up in W.Va.

Post 15 falls to Wheeling, finishes runner-up in state

BECKLEY – Defensive miscues came back to haunt Parkersburg Post 15 and possibly extend the West Virginia American Legion State Tournament to a winner-take-all matchup between Parkersburg and Wheeling Post 1. Monday afternoon at Linda K. Erling Stadium, Wheeling took advantage of four Parkersburg errors, including three in one inning, and captured its third straight state tournament title with an 11-8 win. Wheeling, which went through the double-elimination bracket unscathed, advances to the Mid-Atlantic Region in Cherryville, N.C. and meets the state champion from North Carolina ...

Bev/Lowell eliminated from state tourney

LANCASTER, Ohio – Runs were hard to come by in the latter stages of Sunday afternoon’s elimination game for Beverly/Lowell Post 389/750 at the American Legion State Baseball Tournament. Seeking to advance to Monday’s championship round, Bev/Lowell lost to Napoleon 8-7 in eight innings. Post 389/750, which ended the campaign at 30-11 and hoping to defend last year’s state title, was limited to one run over the final five innings. Bev/Lowell’s offense was in typical form from the start, scoring two runs in the first inning and another three in the second inning. Trailing ...

Ohio, WVU football meet in season-opener

MORGANTOWN — West Virginia football changed the date of the home matchup against Ohio, which moved up the start of the 2027 season. The Mountaineers' game against the Bobcats will be played on Aug. 28, 2027, instead of the originally slated Sept. 18, 2027, game, per release. It'll now be the home and season-opener for the 2027 season. The season was supposed to start the following week against Southern Mississippi on Sept. 4. This is the second game of a three-game contract WVU signed with Ohio in 2021. The first game of the series was in 2025, when the Mountaineers lost to the ...

Post 15 advances to state semifinals

BECKLEY — In a state tournament elimination game, Parkersburg Post 15 rallied from a 7-1 deficit to claim an 11-9 win over Beckley Post 32 on Saturday. Beckley (26-8) got to Parkersburg starter Seth Menarchek early, putting three runs in the first and two more in the second for a 5-1 lead. Post 32 added two more in the fourth to go up six, but Parkersburg answered with a six-spot in the top of the fifth to knot it up at 7-all. Post 15 (19-10) then added two runs each in the sixth and seventh innings. Cooper Cancade, who pitched four innings of relief to earn the mound victory, ...